Computers

The 5-inch Dell Streak—a large phone or a small tablet, depending how you see the world—goes on sale tomorrow in Europe and has gotten a more firm release date here in the US. What was once “summer” is now “July” and the device will sell directly from Dell for $500.

Mother of pearl, that’s a giant tablet. The student-centric “Kno” is made of two 14-inch 1440×900-resolution capacitive IPS touchscreens and weighs 5.5 pounds. It’s meant to replace a college student’s textbooks, though, which collectively weigh at least 5.5 pounds and can’t connect to the internet.

AMD is getting ready to put its 2006 acquisition of graphics company ATI to good use with the 2011 launch of what it’s calling the Fusion APU. The Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit) combines both the CPU (central processing unit) and the GPU (graphics processing unit) together onto a single silicon die. The end result will be …

It’s been nearly two and a half years since Willy Yonkers introduced his iPholio concept. It’s a simple idea wherein a touchscreen smartphone—in this case, an iPhone—snaps into a netbook-size chassis right where you’d ordinarily find a trackpad. The phone would act as the computer’s trackpad and would run the phone’s …

The future-splosion known as Computex is underway in Taipai, Taiwan this week and in the interest of not inundating Techland with post after post about every single tablet, netbook, and other bits of technological wonderment, I thought I’d include everything in a daily roundup for those of you interested in this kind of stuff. …

The problem with devices like the iPad is its inability to be used in direct sunlight. I’m not saying you should be using outside 24/7 but it would be nice to take it to the park or beach without having to look for shade to use the damn thing. Pixel Qi’s display is clearly visible while the iPad’s display is all but washed out even …

Engadget has received a tip “which has been confirmed by a source very close to Apple” that appears to suggest Apple hasn’t given up on AppleTV just yet. Apparently we may see a new revision of the device based on the iPhone’s operating system that contains only 16GB of storage but is capable of streaming full 1080p video with …

Rumors of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer taking the stage for seven minutes at Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference have been greatly exaggerated. So exaggerated, in fact, that none of it’s true at all.

Aiming to hit the magic $100 price point that’s been the goal of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation since the inception of its earliest student-friendly “XO” portable computers, Nicholas Negroponte is planning to take things into the tablet realm over the coming months.

Apple has just become the most valuable technology company in the universe, surpassing Microsoft. Trading isn’t quite over yet but as of around 3:30 Eastern today, Apple’s market cap sat at $224.95 billion compared to Microsoft’s $220.06 billion.